Replanting attachment for cultivators.



No. 835,988. v PATENTED Nov. 13, 1906.

T. c. SWARTZ. RBPLANTING ATTACHMENT FOR GULTIVATORS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.10.1906.

2 SHEBTS-SHEET 1.

No. 835,988. 7 PATENTED NOV.13, 1906.

T. c: SWARTZ. REPLANTING ATTACHMENT FOR CUL'TIVATORS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.10.1906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 TYSON c. swAR'rz, or FAIRVIEW, ILLINOIS.

REPLANTING' ATTACHMENT FOR CULTIVATORS.

. Specification'of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

Application filed April 10,1906. Serial NolSlLOOQ.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TYsoN'C. SWARTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairview, in the county of Fulton and State of 1 Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Replanting Attachments for Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionrelates to corn-planters, the object of the invention being to provide a device for replanting corn and other seed, which 1 is adapted to be applied to any style of culti vator, either riding or walking, and also adapted to be operated by hand, at the places Where it is necessary to effect a replanting.

A further object of the invention is to provide a corn-planter which after being tripped by a suitable hand device is automatic in its action of measuring off the desired number of grains and depositing them in the furrow formed by the shoe of the planter.-

With the above and other objects in View the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cultivator with the improved planting device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the planter. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail section of the lower end of the seedtube. Fig. 5 is a side elevation similar to Fig. 3 showing the manner in which the frame tilts to discharge the corn. Fig. 6 is a sectional view through the hopper with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a sectional plan View of the hopper, showing the cut-off.

In the drawings I have shown the cornplanter applied to an ordinary walking-cultivator embodying the usual beam 1, clevis 2, standard 3, shovel 4, handles 5, and handlebars 6.

In carrying out the present invention I employ an L-shaped bracket 7, which may consist of a rod or piece of tubing bent into the form of an L, having the upright or vertical portion 8 thereof connected to the cultivator-beam by means of a clip 9, the bracket being thus held rigidly to the beam with the horizontal portion of the bracket extending laterally away from the beam to any desired distance and forming a shaft or supporting-axle upon which the frame of the corn-planter is journaled and permitted to cross-bar 12. At the inner side of the tilting frame there is arranged a stop-collar 13, while at the outer side of said frame is arranged another stop-collar 14, from which a rigid arm 15 projects horizontally forward, the

forward extremity of said arm being bent in ward, as shown at 16, to provide for the connection therewith of a retracting-spring 17,

, the opposite or rear end of whichis connected to the cross-bar 12 of the tilting frame, as shown at 18. The spring 17 exerts its tension to hold the tilting frame normally in the position shown in Fig. 3that is to say, in-a substantially horizontal position, while permitting the frame to tilt for a purpose hereinafter described.

Mounted between the rear ends of the side bars 10 of the tilting frame is a hopper 19,

provided with a suitable lid or cover 20. This hopper is pivotally mounted at 21 between the rear ends of the side bars 10 of the tilting frame, so that it may rock between said arms, and, as shown in Fig. 6, the bottom of the hopper is provided with a discharge opening 22, communicating with which is a dropping-tube 23, which is rigidlyconnected to the bottom of the hopper and extends downward a suitable distance there,

from. Mounted upon the tube 23 is an extension-tube 24, which is adjustable up and down on the tube 23 and adapted to be held by means of a binding-screw 25, thus enabling the height of the furrow-forming shoe 26 to be regulated, the shoe 26 being rigidly connected to and carried by the lower adjustable tube 24.

Operating over and upon the bottom of the hopper is a seed-slide 27, which is provided at a suitable point with a pocket 28,

movable beneath a guard 29, which covers the pocket 28 when said pocket is in line with the discharge-opening 22 in the bottom of the hopper. When the slide 27 moves forward, the pocket 28 is moved from beneath the guard 29 and placed in communication with the hopper, so as'to receive the necessary number of grains of corn, and as the slide is moved rearward again to carry the pocket beneath the guard the guard acts as a cut-ofl for the corn, permitting only the requisite number of grains to pass under the same and be delivered into. the, tube 2.3.

The slide 27 operates through oppositelyarranged slots 30 in the hopper, and the rear end of said slide is pivotally connected at 31 to a pair of oppositely-arranged links 32',

which pivotally connect at 33 with the side bars 10.- of the tilting frame. Stops 3.4 pro.- j ect outwardly from the sides of the hopper and are, adapted. to, come incontact with the side bars: 10: for limiting the rocking move.- ment of the hopper when itreaehes the position shown in Figs. 5v and 6, at which time the pocket 28 is in line: with the dischargeopening 22. The spring 17 acts toretract the tilting frame to. the position shown in Figs. 1 and; 3', and as the.- tilting frame resumes: its horizontal position the; links 3.2: operate to, return the hopper 19- to, its normal vertical: position, at the same. time restoring the tube 23;. and the parts connected there with to the normal position. The forward portion of the tilting frame. is provided with a laterallv-extending L.shaped1ever-arm- 3,5,, g

from whieh a connecting-rod 3.6 extends backward to. a hand-leverSZ, which ispivotally mounted at 38 on one,- of. the handles or handle-bars, as. shown at Fig. 1-,. thus placing the same in convenient. position. tov be operated by the attendantfor throwing the; corn: planter into operation, in the manner above explained. Itwilt be seen that after the.- op eratormoves the tilting frame sufficiently to cause the shoe 26 tov engage the ground the remainder ot the operation is automatie, the

shoe serving to swing the tilting frame to. the limit 0t movement.

In order to balance the hopper 19 in a substantially upright position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, I employ a balancing-spring 39, which is connected at one end to a lug 40, projecting outward from one side of the hopper, and at its other end to a fixed point on the bracket 7, which may consist of a pin 41 on the collar 14, hereinabove described. The spring 39 in connection with the spring 17 serves to restore all of the movable parts of the mechanism to their normal ina-etive position as soon. as the shoe 26. moves up,- ward outof engagement with the ground.

The herein-described replanting attachment for corn-planters, consistingof a supporting-bracket, means for securing said bracket tothe frame ofv a planter, a tilting open-center frame having the side bars thereof journaled on said supporting-bracket, a spring for holding said tilting frame yieldingly in a substantially horizontal position, a hopper pivotal-1y mounted in said tilting frame, means for balancing said hopper; and for holding it ina normally upright. position, a seed-slide mounted in said hopper, a. drop,- ping tube extending downward from the hopper and-carried thereby, a: link connecting; said; slide and; the tilting; frame whereby the slide is operated simultaneously with the swinging of the tilting; frame, and, a guard extending; over the opening in the seed-slide and pocket,

I' estimony whereof; I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, TYSON C. SWARTZ. Witnesses:

BURTON. S. HAGAM-AN,; J A. BERGER. 

